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Living qualitatively: Getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again

Kai-Sean Lee

Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education2025https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100541article
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Abstract

This paper critiques the sterile, formulaic, and positivist tendencies in hospitality and tourism qualitative research, exposing several dangerous misconceptions including the false gold standard of data saturation, the mistreatment of subjectivity as a flaw, and the notion that qualitative research can be adequately taught in a single course alone. The author concludes with the idea of living qualitatively , a mode of inquiry that prizes becoming, resists sterile simplification, and centers epistemic humility—a process of getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again.

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@article{kai-sean2025,
  title        = {{Living qualitatively: Getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again}},
  author       = {Kai-Sean Lee},
  journal      = {Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100541},
}

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